Analysis of Bowling for Columbine Robin Bråthen 1st8 What causes the United States of America to have the highest rate of people being shot when other countries also allows guns? Michael Moore is a movie director maker‚ and is making documentaries. He wants to take us through his movie about the rare gun laws in the United States of America. The documentary is named: “Bowling for Columbine”. The documentary “bowling for Columbine” is a documentary about the much needed gun security in United
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Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain follows the emergence of an alien space germ that reaches Earth via the crash of a top secret U.S. satellite near a small Arizona town‚ told over a five day period. Government agency “Wildfire”‚ specially designated for such biological threats‚ arrives to find everyone but an old man and a baby dead‚ also retrieving the satellite. After realizing the the satellite supposedly sent to “harmlessly” research dusts and microorganisms was truly based upon biological
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These children that bring guns and other weapons to school are so fed up with being harassed on a daily basis that they feel this is the only way for the harasser to be punished. A good example of this rage is the Columbine shootings. Dylan Kelbold and Eric Harris killed twelve students‚ one teacher‚ and then themselves. The parents of these two teens said that this act of violence was due to bullying (Greenya 103). This shooting was an eye-opener for schools that
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Comparison of Bowling for Columbine and Let’s Talk About Sex We all know the infamous author Michael Moore for his dark sense of humor that has shed its light on America in different ways. He is great at the craft of documentaries‚ and in my opinion it is one of the best that I have ever seen. “Bowling for Columbine‚” won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. In many ways this film had me uneasy‚ yet I feel it is one of the most compelling documentaries that I have seen. Throughout this documentary
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Columbine High School Tuesday‚ April 20‚ 1999‚ was a turning point in the lives of many Columbine students and families. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ two former students at Columbine High School‚ went to school on that day for one purpose‚ to annihilate the school building as well as the student body. Although Eric and Dylan’s bombs did not detonate‚ they still succeeded in destroying the lives and families of the twelve students and the one teacher that died. The Columbine High School shooting
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October 17‚ 2010 Bowling for Columbine Thesis Statements 1) The high casualties caused by guns are a result of how easy it is to obtain one. If policies were made stricter‚ casualties would go down. I do not agree with this because it would only affect the people who go to obtain their guns legally. If you really wanted one all you would have to do is steal it‚ so the policies would then have no effect on you. 2) Minorities and blacks are made to be scarier than they are because they
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A documentary film is one that aims to record real events or ideas in order to inform the viewer‚ present an opinion and generate public interest in a topics. There are many types of documentaries including: science‚ historical and social‚ nature and investigative. Documentaries in the past were strictly science or nature related. However in modern day documentaries are seen to be more for social interest and they engage the audience more‚ they are also seen to be more investigative as well. Historically
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shootings are a tragedy that is all too common‚ particularly in the USA. Michael Moore chose to delve a little deeper to find the possible causes of this‚ particularly in relation to the 1999 school shooting at the town of Columbine through the documentary Bowling for Columbine. Based on this documentary‚ the causes of the school shooting are due to the environment: primarily the United States’ violent history‚ then the abundance of guns in the country. The cause of the school shooting was not violent
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Background: In the small town of Littleton‚ Colorado‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School on Tuesday‚ April 20th‚ 1999 prepared to unleash havoc on the masses of the school. The two students had formulated a plan months before April 20th‚ part of the plan consisted of assembling bombs that were designed to destroy the cafeteria and the library. Furthermore‚ Harris and Klebold both took note of the amount of students that were inside the cafeteria at each time of the day so
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A Wider View on Michael Moore Behind the Camera Lens (Moore presented in the film wielding a gun) Following the massacre of Columbine High School‚ Colorado‚ controversial filmmaker Michael Moore‚ ventured into creating the societal criticism documentary that explored gun violence throughout the United States. The documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002)‚ directed‚ produced‚ and written by Moore‚ deconstructs the events of this massacre‚ other school shooting‚ American gun culture‚ media coverage
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